Because Its There

Reagan is growing and developing by leaps and bounds. Over the last couple of weeks she is speaking more and more clearly. She has always been a talker. But is was gibberish. Her favorite gibberish phrase has been "ded gieeesh" or as Aunt Tara heard over her visit....
"Dead geese. Dead geese."

She is really working on saying other words. She's almost got Tiernan down. She's been saying "Ma ma" and "Da da" but for a while we were both Dada. After a few corrections she's calling DirectorMom, Mama. She is also got Lala down, for Aunt Eileen. And our dog Maggie is about to added to her vocabulary. She is working on it, it currently sounds like, "Madgiesh" but she is nothing if not persistent.

Which brings me to another aspect in her development. Climbing. I've taken to calling her Hillary Edmund, (After Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mt. Everest.) She climbs everything, without fear. It is like an obession with her. Even at the Club, she spends 80 percent of her time climbing out of the pool, she she can get back in and climb out again.

She climbs on the couches. She has alwasy been fasinated by the stairs. We have bar-stool height chairs in the kitchen at the island, somehow she managed to climb up into those chairs one day. There is nothing more jarring to a parent, then seeing your little baby sitting in a chair at a height that you thought was unattainable. "Hey, how'd you get up there?" There's your little girl sitting with a self-satisfied grin, banging on the table. She climbs on the chairs at the kitchen table. She likes to stand on them and look out the windows.

It is the ability to get into and out of the kitchen chairs with has brought her to a new level in epicurial seating. She is not longer in the high-chair. She has moved to the booster seat. She must still be strapped in because.... she climbs out. But she not longer eats on her own little island. She eats at the table with the rest of the family.

The rest of the family has not decided if this is a good thing or not.